Category Archives: Happening

I saw A Death in the Gunj last week. There’s a sense of haunting melancholia that has stayed with me since then. The movie, set in the 1979 of McCluskieganj, deals with a discordant family and certain very complex inter-personal … Continue reading →

I was really in a dilemma whether to write this in Bangla or not. Bangla is an emotion and is THE language to write in, when it comes to write about the Bangla New Year or Noboborsho. But then I … Continue reading →

To be honest, the first and last I had heard of Palm Oil was when I was very very young. There was a major furor regarding the ill effects of Palm Oil. That dissipated and that was it, till decades … Continue reading →

It’s a sunny Wednesday morning. Shirin woke up early, finished her morning chores and headed out. She will be going to Raang today, the small market town nearest to her home, to pay the monthly instalment that she doles out … Continue reading →